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Three cauliflowers have survived the winter and two have decided to produce a head.  Great!  One is at least half an inch across and the other one is a mammoth inch.  Just enough to make Cauliflower cheese for a very small mouse.

Well done - that is a good start to the year  :D
Just don't do what I did and listen to your OH, who took a look at the small but perfectly formed caulis and said to leave them as they would get bigger. A week later and they had blown!
Hoping for more success this year  with caulis :) 

That makes the one I've just discovered in the lottie a veritable cauli-giant, with a diameter of at least 1.5 inches!
;)

hat's off for even trying

Well done, you did much better than I have ever done.  :(

I shall try again.  The next but one allotment had a row of huge ones last year.  Perhaps if I have green fingers for squashes and beans somehow this is balance by the wrong vibes for brassicas. 

I accidentally managed a couple of decent ones this time a couple of years ago. Apart from that, I've been crap at them. :-\

Maybe this year's the one, eh?

Did I post this one last year?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/photo04/general/brocco.jpg

What variety is that, Tim - Medusa's head?   ??? ??? ??? ???

Cauliflowers often form very small imature heads if they suffer a check while growing. Most times the seed is sown in a seed bed and then the plants transplanted , you can get better results by using little cacti pots with general purpose compost a couple of seeds sown in each reduced to one if both germinate. This will give you a good small plant to plant out with no check at all. We only want a few at a time so you save a lot of seed as well.